The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Torture victims | Young man from Al-Tal city dies in regime prison

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of a young man from Al-Tal city under torture in regime prison. According to SOHR sources, the victim’s family have received his body after he was arrested by the regime’s “military security” a month earlier.

 

It is worth noting that the young man had been displaced to northern Syria, according to a deal in 2016 to evacuate opposition factions and the city’s residents who refused reconciliations with the Syrian regime. The victim returned to the city a few months after he had been displaced, after guarantees to his family in Al-Tal city by commissions which used to mediate reconciliation deals with Syrian regime.

 

As more people died, the number of civilians who have died under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, rose to 16,209 fatalities documented by names: 16,019 men and young men, 125 children under the age of eighteen, and 64 women over the age of eighteen.

 

 Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that the number of people who were killed, executed and died in regime’s prisons exceeded 104,000 people. Over 83% of the total toll were killed, and died in these prisons between May 2013 and October 2015. SOHR sources have also confirmed that more than 30,000 detainees were killed in the notorious prison of Sednaya, while the second largest percentage of killing was in the Air Force Intelligence department.